The 44rd Razzie nominations are out.
After strikes, lingerings of a worldwide plague and a general sense of universal agoraphobia, the decline of the cinematic experience goes without saying. Thankfully, a doll pic and a bomb movie jump-started The Industry, which still left a trail of Pooh behind for the Razzies® to pick up!
The five Worst Picture nominees for the 44th Annual Razzies® are:
- The Exorcist: Believer — a fifty-years-later remake/rip-off that was horrifying in unintended ways
- Expend4bles — another installment of a franchise that’s fading faster than Razzie “winner” Donald Trump’s mental acuity
- Meg 2: The Trench — a fishy tale about a snarky shark that flopped across all seven seas
- Shazam! Fury of the Gods — One of 2023’s several comic book movies failing to save the superhero genre
- Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey — a defamation (and defecation) on two of the most beloved Kiddie Lit characters, “re-imagining” the huggable denizens of the Hundred Acre Wood as vicious, cannibal serial killers.
Apart from Expend4bles, with 7 Razzie nominations, genre films did the most damage to Hollywood last year: The Exorcist: Believer: 5; Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey: 5; Shazam! Fury of the Gods: 4; Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania: 4; and Meg 2: The Trench: 3.
43RD ANNUAL GOLDEN RASPBERRY (RAZZIE®) NOMINATIONS
WORST PICTURE
- The Exorcist: Believer
- Expend4bles
- Meg 2: The Trench
- Shazam! Fury of the Gods
- Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST ACTOR
- Russell Crowe / The Pope’s Exorcist
- Vin Diesel / Fast X
- Chris Evans / Ghosted
- Jason Statham / Meg 2: The Trench
- Jon Voight / Mercy
WORST ACTRESS
- Ana de Armas / Ghosted
- Megan Fox / Johnny & Clyde
- Salma Hayek / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
- Jennifer Lopez / The Mother
- Dame Helen Mirren / Shazam! Fury of the Gods
WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
- Kim Cattrall / About My Father
- Megan Fox / Expend4bles
- Bai Ling / Johnny & Clyde
- Lucy Liu / Shazam! Fury of the Gods
- Mary Stuart Masterson / Five Nights at Freddy’s
WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR
- Michael Douglas / Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
- Mel Gibson / Confidential Informant
- Bill Murray / Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
- Franco Nero (as “The Pope”) The Pope’s Exorcist
- Sylvester Stallone / Expend4ables
WORST SCREEN COUPLE
- Any 2 “Merciless Mercenaries” / Expend4bles
- Any 2 Money-Grubbing Investors Who Donated to the $400 Million
- for Remake Rights to The Exorcist
- Ana de Armas & Chris Evans (who flunked Screen Chemistry) Ghosted
- Salma Hayek & Channing Tatum / Magic Mike’s Last Dance
- Pooh & Piglet as Blood-Thirsty Slasher/Killers (!) in Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST PREQUEL, REMAKE, RIP-OFF OR SEQUEL
- Ant Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
- The Exorcist: Believer
- Expend4bles
- Indiana Jones and The Dial of…Still Beating a Dead Horse
- Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
WORST DIRECTOR
- Rhys Frake-Waterfield / Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
- David Gordon Green / The Exorcist: Believer
- Peyton Reed / Ant Man & the Wasp: Quantumania
- Scott Waugh / Expend4bles
- Ben Wheatley / Meg 2: The Trench
WORST SCREENPLAY
- The Exorcist: Believer
- Expend4bles
- Indiana Jones and the Dial of…Can I go home now?
- Shazam! Fury of the Gods
- Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey
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Sigh. I can’t take the Razzies (un)seriously anymore. Not since the Bruce Willis fiasco, let alone the time they gave a Razzie to a 12-year-old girl. Also, today I learned that “members of the Golden Raspberry Foundation are not required to watch the nominated films.” What?!
I know people who really liked “The Exorcist: Believer” — and their opinions are more trustworthy to me than some random person who nominated it because it seemed cool to do so.
Why is Shazam: Fury of the Gods up for Worst Picture, but also NOT up for the worst sequel. I sense shenanigans. (in actuality, I thought it was OK)
I’m waiting for the release of the Razzie longlist. I suspect we’ll find a lot of discrepancies in the data 😉
The Razzie nomination of Michael Douglas for worst actor in Ant-Man 3 is crazy. Critics hated the movie, in my belief, because all the dialog about sub-atomic quantum universes went way over their heads. No sense of history, from Girl In The Golden Atom, to Julius Schwartz’s subatomic universes in Strange Adventures, and Ray Palmer. Not to mention the amazing CGI effects, at least equal to the ones in Guardians of the Galaxy 3